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You will not see any Virtual Machines in the console but you should be good to start the build and deploy on VS Emulator Android Phone. Once Hyper-V is installed, you can open up Hyper-V Manager.
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There are enough posts on the Internet to enable Hyper-V on Windows 8.1.

Now this does not provide much detail but the solution to this problem lays in the fact that VS Emulator Android Phone requires Hyper-V Platform to be enabled. The build may take some time, especially the installation of Mono shared runtimeĪssuming that you have set the API properties correctly in Visual Studio when you build your Visual Studio solution for VS Emulator, you may hit another build error which is totally cryptic.ġ>Starting emulator: VS Emulator Android Phoneġ>Emulator start error: VS Emulator Android Phone This AVD will be stored at C:\Users\%username%\.android\avdĪs soon as you create the AVD, Visual Studio 2015 will detect it and show in the Run option Once this is installed, you can create your new AVD with configuration shown below.
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You need to open up Android SDK Manager (Visual Studio, Tools > Android > Start Android SDK Manager) and download System Images as shown below If you want to use v19, you need to perform some additional steps. So if you are not using anything specific to v19 (KitKat), you could downgrade your versions 12 or 10 in the project properties and use the emulator MonoForAndroid_API_12 and run the application to see something like

I opened up the Android Virtual Device Manager (Visual Studio, Tools > Android > Open Android Emulator Manager) and saw that there are only 2 Virtual Devices using platform 10 and 12 while I was using version 19. Check the Compile using Android version it should be less or equal then your Android API version.I changed my project settings as shown below Once the new project is created (takes approx. Open up your Visual Studio 2015 Preview and create a new Project (File > New Project). You don’t need to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 or any other editions you have on your machine. Give your machine a restart to ensure no pending uninstallations exist. I had to uninstall Xamarin Universal Installer, Xamarin Studio and Xamarin. I had a version installed for my Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Edition and I uninstalled Xamarin. I believe in clean start, so if you have any versions of Xamarin installed you should uninstall them. So I though I will give myself a try with Xamarin on this version of Visual Studio. Well, this post is inspired to help a close friend of mine who was struggling to get Xamarin run on Visual Studio 2015 Preview and develop some Xamarin application on Android platform.
